SEAL PRESERVE. 21 



SEAL PEESEEYE. 



NOVELTIES are universally run after, but who will 

 try to adopt the following ? True, "it is not in the 

 power of many ; still some have the facilities. "We 

 have deer parks, pheasant covers, grouse moors, and 

 rabbit warrens ; still we have no seal preserve. I 

 can fancy I see Mr. Frank Buckland looking aghast 

 at the proposal, and exclaiming emphatically, 

 " What ! Give a home and protection to the de- 

 stroyers of my darling children Salmo solar? 

 Such a proceeding would be worse than sacrilege, 

 and all the other abominable crimes known, taken col- 

 lectively and jumbled up into one heap." Within 

 easy ride of San Francisco, the capital of California, 

 is situated the Ocean House a great resort, in warm 

 weather and holidays, of the elite of this prosperous 

 Pacific city, for here at all times a fresh breeze can 

 be inhaled, and, excepting during a calm, the grand- 

 est, largest waves seen, lashing with impetuous fury 

 the precipitous towering cliffs of a wild, iron-bound 



